Main entry:

Norton, Peter D.

Title & Author:

Fighting traffic : the dawn of the motor age in the American city / Peter Norton.

Publication:

Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, ©2008.

Description:

vi, 396 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Series:

Inside technology

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 263-381) and index.
Introduction: What are streets for? -- I. Justice. Blood, grief, and anger ; Police traffic regulation: Ex Chao Ordo ; Whose street? Joyriders versus jaywalkers -- II. Efficiency. Streets as public utilities ; Traffic control ; Traffic efficiency versus motor freedom -- III. Freedom. The commodification of streets ; Traffic safety for the motor age ; The dawn of the motor age -- Conclusion: History, technology, and the dawn of the motor age.
Dust jacket.

Summary:

In 'Fighting Traffic', Peter Norton argues that to accommodate automobiles, the American city required not only a physical change, but also a social one - before the city could be restructured for the sake of motorists, its streets had to be socially reconstructed as a place where motorists belonged.

Resources:
Table of contents
Table of contents
Table of contents only

ISBN:

9780262141000 (hardcover)
0262141000 (hardcover)
9780262516129
0262516128

Subject:

Transportation, Automotive Social aspects United States.
Transportation, Automotive United States History 20th century.
Transports routiers Aspect social États-Unis.
Transports routiers États-Unis Histoire 20e siècle.
Transportation, Automotive.
Transportation, Automotive Social aspects.
Einfluss
Kraftwagen
Stadt
Stadtverkehr
Verkehrsregelung
Transporter sociala aspekter.
United States.
USA

Form/genre:

History.

Added entries:

Inside technology.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 265101
Call No.: BIB 196521
Status: Available